terebra /terˈi-brə/

1. A Roman contrivance for boring walls (historical)
2. A boring instrument or organ
3. A piercing ovipositor (biology)
4. (with cap) a genus of gastropods with auger-shaped shell

terˈebrant adjective

1. Boring
2. Having a piercing ovipositor

A bore

terˈebrate transitive verb and intransitive verb

To bore

1. Having scattered perforations
2. (eg of insects) having a boring organ, such as a sting

terebrāˈtion noun

terebratˈūla noun (pl terebratˈūlas or terebratˈūlae /-lē/)

A member of Terebratula, the lamp-shell genus of brachiopods, with perforated beak

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